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Discuss currencies and taxes

Discuss currencies and taxes

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Discuss currencies and taxes

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- In addition to payment, you will also have to talk about currencies and taxes. And this will overlap a little bit with payment gateways, which we talked about earlier. Sometimes store owners like to offer multiple currencies, which makes sense. It makes it a little bit easier for people in other countries to understand the value. Now, depending on how they want to handle multiple currencies, it could be either very simple or very complicated. And this is where it's your job as the developer to advise them of the costs associated with each choice and guide them to the choice that is right for them. The two options are, first, display prices in other currencies, and second, display and accept other currencies. The first one, just showing prices in other currencies, can be somewhat easy. There are several options out there. Shopify has Auto Currency Switcher and WooCommerce has the Currency Converter Widget. So displaying other currencies could be as little as 30 minutes of work once…

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